Loughner's Parents Saw Mental Decline

By

Tamara Audi and

John R. Emshwiller

March 27, 2013 7:56 p.m. ET

The parents of Jared Loughner told investigators that his behavior grew strange in the year before he shot 19 people outside a Tucson, Ariz., supermarket, and that they had taken away his shotgun and banned him from using the family car at night, according to investigative documents released Wednesday.

A federal judge ordered the Pima County sheriff to release reports from the 2011 shooting that left six dead and 13 injured, including...